Radio: The Week in Review

The effort of putting on two first-rate shows last week left television
with neither ingenuity nor wit for the rest of its schedule. NBC's
Producers' Showcase brought Broadway's Katharine Cornell to TV for her
dramatic debut with her best-known vehicle, Rudolf Besier's 1931 hit,
The Barretts of Wimpole Street. In telling the love story of bedridden
Elizabeth Barrett and Poet Robert Browning, the play seemed to have a
full set of strikes against it for a mass audience, since 1) it was
about poets and poetry, 2) its problem could have been solved at any
time merely by the heroine's walking...